Genocide of the Kanaka Maoli Exhibit: Scalping Evidence

Genocide of the Kanaka Maoli Exhibit:  Scalping Evidence

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Genocide Evidence: 1850 White Supremacists/American Barbarians Scalped 68 Indians, and were paid, etc.

 Genocide Evidence:  1850 White Supremacists/American Barbarians Scalped 68 Indians, and were paid, etc.

                                                    Reviewed by Amelia Gora (2021)

                                                               

The following shows evidence of genocide, the payment of scalps by Americans.  The taking of scalps was also made on kanaka maoli:

Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, January 12, 1850, Page 139, Image 3

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Note:  The White Supremacists also took the scalps of kanaka maoli after the criminal dethronement of Queen Liliuokalani in 1893:

The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, April 17, 1893, Image 5

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